- City:
- Sunbury, PA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
A school building was constructed in Sunbury as a New Deal project. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $88,730 grant for the project, whose total cost was $201,354. PWA Docket No. PA [W]1607.
Living New Deal believes it’s the original construction of what’s now Shikellamy High School.
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 35.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 23, 2018.
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Ted Strosser
Are you sure this is the right school? It’s date stone reads 1939, while the Thomas A. Edison School at North 4th Street has a date stone of 1938. Could this, or both, be WPA projects?